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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






2. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






3. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






4. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






5. The time and place of a story or play.






6. A four line stanza in a poem.






7. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






8. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






9. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






10. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






11. A short saying with a moral.






12. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






13. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






14. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






15. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






16. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






17. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






18. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






19. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






20. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






21. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






22. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






23. What a story or play is about.






24. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






25. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






26. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






27. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






28. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






29. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






30. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






31. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






32. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






33. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






34. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






35. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






36. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






37. The dictionary meaning of a word.






38. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






39. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






40. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






41. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






42. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






43. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






44. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






45. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






46. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






47. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






48. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






49. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






50. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.